Hanger for sliding doors.



E. P. GOLDEN. HANGER FOR SLIDING DOORS. APYLIUATION FILED 11111111, 1011.

1,001,586. Patented Aug. 22, 1911. 2 BHEBTBBH|ET 1.

E. P. GOLDEN. HANGER POR SLIDING DOORS. APPLIOATION FILED 1,111.11, 1011.

1,001,586. Patented Aug. 22, 1911.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

gmc/who@ www W7/mw H/dew Q @1W 15M/.4.. 1 www' tlldlTED @TAUUES PATENT @FFME EPHRAIIVI P. GOLDEN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO JOHN O. GOLDEN, OF PORTLAND, OREGON.

HANGER FOR S'LDING DOORS.

11,001,586. Specfwatvn 0f Letters Patent ,Patented Aug. 22, 1911.

Original application filed April 12, 1910, Serial No. &,99l. Divided and this application filed January 17, 1911. Serial No. 603,126.

To all whom it may concern: pose et relieving strain on the pivot o'l: the

Be it known that I, Ernie-imi l. GOLDEN, links. 55 a citizen of the United States ot America, Upon reiterenee to Fig. Q oit the drawing, residing at Chicago, in the county oit Cook lit will be observed that the door is in its and State of lllinois, have invented new and neutral position so that the upper and lower useful improvements in Hangers for Slidpivots of the links are in vertical aline ing Doors, of which the 'following is a speeiment, one above the other. ln this position 60 ieation. olA the door the lower edge thereof is dis- This invention relates to hangers for slid posed wholly out ol contact with and above ing doors, and has for an object to provide Vthe support El() so as to be entirely lree 'from improved mechanism of this character eon :lrietional engagement therewith on move sisting of companion pivotally supported ment oit the door to an open or elosed posi 65 links operatively connected with the door tion. Upon a slight application of pressure and supporting` the same so as to @auge it to manually or otherwise to the door in one move on an are of a eirele and to move audireetion it will move automatieally by its tomatieally when the door is slightly past own g 'avity in an are of a circle as described its neutral position,the construction of the by the dot and dash lines in the drawings, 7o links so as to cause the door to move on an assisted by the weight oit the links to the are 0f a, Circle, being Such as t() entirely fllll 013011 DOSltlOll SllOWIl lll Fig'. l. It Will eliminate frictional engagement 0f the door Ofi? (,Olll'SC li() lllltltlSlOOfl llllll Wllell ll', iS (l0- Wth tho dool` Emme oy easing, sil-ed to elose the door pressure is exerted In the drawings, forming o poi-tion of thereaoainst in an opposite direction to that this specification and in which like numerals JlISt (lOSCiihell. of reference indient@ Similar parts iii the ik ln'aClQt {Illltlt} 33 lllOlllllCtl lll till@ governi vioW5;..Figu1o 1 is o View in Section shatt above the door opening', and as shown through o poi-tion of m elevator Sho-ft Show- 1n Fig. Ll, it embraces the door and it opering the application Of my improved door to ales to `guide the same in its movement and the door opening` ot the shaft and showing to hold it' operatively assoeiated with the the door in n full open position. Fig Q, '1S door opening'. A similar braeket `guide 33 a similaiview showing the door in a neutral is mounted in the shalt below the door openoston, Fig- 3 is o Similmvow Showing mg and immediately at one side of the door tho doof in tg 'full olosod position, Fig; t at the lower edge thereof to embrace the 85 is L Section on lino 4 of Fig- 1, same and to cooperate with the lirst Q,'uide The elevator Simft F Shown hoi-ein is probraeket 33 to prevent sagging' oit the door vided with a door opening G. The door 21 away from the opening. i5 hung und Suppoytod by links 2Q and 23, As shown 1n Fig'. Al of the drawings, the the foi-moy boing of gmguloy fol-m md tho upper end o'l' the door and the inner 'tace 90 luttelbong formed pyofombiy of o Straight thereof is `provided with an inwardly exbmx The link 23 is pvotod, as t Q4, to o tending' shoulder 3d on which the pivot fixed Support in tho Shaft; immediately bostuds :tor the upper ends ot' the links 22 and Death tho door opooiog, Tho oppor ond of 23 are mounted. One wall et the shaft is the link is pivoted t() the door prete -ably 0n Dl'OVlClell With a Similar Shoulder 3d OD 95 the inner Sid@ thaieof und near Op@ Wllltl'l ille plVOi) SllKlS lOl' illlt, lOWOl ClltlS O' vertical edges. The link 22 has its short the links are mounted. arm Q6 pivoted, as at 27, to a fixed support l Chmn 1"- in the shaft at a point beneath the door l. ln a doorhanger, the eombination with opening and on a line with the pivot 24 ot a door, o't a link o'l`j angular eonstruetion 100 the link 231 The long' arm 2S et' the link having` a long;I arm pivoted to the door and 22 is pivotally connected, as at 2%),to the door having' a short arm pivoted to a lined supnear the upper outer edge thereof. Then port beneath the door, and a second link the door is in the closed position shown in pivoted at its lower end to a tixed support Fig. 3, its lower edge rests on the horizontal beneath the door and having its upper end support 30 which is provided or the purpivoted to the door at a point on line with the upper pivot of the long arm of the first link.

2. In a hanger the combination with a door, and a structure having a door opening therein, the door being movable across the opening, of companion links, pivoted respectively at their upper ends to the door near the opposite vertical edges thereof, said pivots being arranged in horizontal alineinent with each other, the said links having their lower ends pivoted to fixed supports beneath the door opening and having' their lower pivots arranged in alinement with eae'h other.

3. In a door hanger, the Combination with a door7 of a hanger lnovably supporting the Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by

door and operating to cause the door to move on an are of a circle, the said hanger comprising a straight link pivoted at its upper end to the door and at its lower end to a xed support beneath the door7 and a second link extending at an angle to the first link and pivoted at its upper end to the door and at its lower end to a iXed support beneath the door.

In testimony whereof I amx my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EPHRAIM P. GOLDEN.

lVitnesses:

JACOB H. HooKsToN, CHARLES W. FAGER.

addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

